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The Web Depot offers professional Web site development and construction, including consulting and maintenance services, for a wide array of customers at very competitive prices. To obtain Web development services or to request pricing information, contact the design department at The Web Depot.

While The Web Depot does not provide free technical support for Web publishing, there are a number of resources on the Internet that offer a wealth of information about creating Web services. The following list provides a broad array of sites that can help users with development tasks of all sizes, from putting together a simple home page to building and maintaining an industrial-strength server.

INTERNET FUNDAMENTALS - General information about the Internet and Web publishing
HTML - Information, references, and tools for HyperText Mark-Up Language, the standard for Internet publishing

Guides, Tutorials, Tips, and Advice - Basic how-to information for authoring in HTML
HTML Authoring Software - Freeware and shareware applications and utilities designed to make HTML authoring easier
References - Tables and appendices to take the pain out of computing hexidecimal values for colors, finding codes for special characters, and other pesky necessities

GRAPHICS - Instructions and tools for preparing images for publication, including some libraries of ready-to-use graphics

Imagemaps - Advice and utilities for creating "clickable" images
Graphics Manipulation Software - Shareware and freeware for creating, manipulating, and converting graphics files
Free Image Files - Catalogs of images you can copy, download, or link for use in your own pages

SCRIPTS - Information and utilities for writing gateways scripts for added functionality
MULTIMEDIA - Tools and tips for including sound and animations in Web pages
WEBMASTRY - Instructions, advice, and tools for building and maintaining your own server
DOWNLOADING SOFTWARE - Major software companies and their download sites
AFTER YOU'RE PUBLISHED - Tools to use to submit your site to search engines, rank your site, and find out who else is new

Internet Fundamentals

Experts' Exchange - A free service that puts novice users in touch with an array of experts in computer and Internet technology
URIs, URLs, URNs, and URCs - A guide to various locator codes in present use
US Copyright Office - Important references and information for keeping your pages legal
WWW & Internet Manuals - Pointers to all kinds of information about the WWW

HTML

Guides, Tutorials, Tips, and Advice

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML - A guide to "virtually every" HTML tag, including extensions, available in several languages
A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA) - A primer designed to teach the basics of authoring HTML documents
Creating Killer Websites - A site to learn more about visual appeal with design-intensive examples and help
HTML Reference - Another reference point for HTML
HTML: The Complete Guide - Several articles on various aspects of HTML writing
HTML Writers Guild - Information and resources from an organization of professional web page designers
HTML 3.0 and Netscape 3.0 - Guidelines for the use of HTML 3.0 tags and Netscape 3.0 tags, offering alternative solutions to non-standard code
Introduction to HTML - A guide to the basics of HTML for beginners
Style Guide for Online Hypertext - A guide to stylizing HTML code, with an eye toward widespread standardization
Web-Aid - A plethora of resources for creating Web pages
WWW Fill-out Forms - An introduction and tutorial for creating forms in HTML (no script information)
W3C's HTML Resources - HTML Specs, drafts, reports, discussion forums, and other resources

HTML Authoring Software

Doctor HTML - An on-line utility that performs a series of tests on HTML documents
HTML Grinder - Not an editor, but a collection of tools for making changes in large groups of HTML documents - a must for Web Masters
HTML Markdown - A Macintosh utility that deletes HTML tags from downloaded documents
HTML Markup - A "drag and drop" Macintosh utility for translating common text documents into HTML

References

Definitive HTML Book List - Designed to be a comprehensive bibliography to resources on HTML and related topics
HTML and ASCII - A table for translating ASCII characters into HTML codes
ISO Latin 1 Character Entities - A table of characters and their respective HTML codes

Graphics

Imagemaps

NCSA Imagemap Tutorial - An extensive tutorial on creating and using imagemaps
Web Hotspots - A windows application for creating, editing, and testing imagemaps

Graphics Manipulation Software

Alien Skin's Eye Candy -A plugin for Adobe Photoshop for manipulating graphics
PaintShop Pro - An easy to use and affordable graphics program to download

Free Image Files

Anthony's Icon Library - Bitmapped icons saved in GIF format for use in WWW pages
Image-O-Rama - Another place for free images
The Clip Art Connection - A rich resource for public domain art (various file formats, may need conversion to GIF or JPEG)
Dip Pixelware - Textures - Constantly refreshed selection of textures, plus how-to advice for creating your own
Zeus's Textures - Several colorful and striking background patterns

Scripts

The Common Gateway Interface - An introduction and primer to the functioning of CGI scripts
A Guide to HTML and CGI Scripts - A simple introduction to HTML tags and CGI scripts
Java Directory - Gamelan - Complete resources for programming in Java, including Java Scripts
Matt's Script Archive - Offers a wide array of ready-to-use CGI scripts (written in Perl) free for you to use in your own site

Multimedia

Alchemy Mindworks - Commercial software publisher whose "GIF Construction Set" provides a tool for creating simple, unified animations
Java Language Tutorial - An on-line guide to writing programs in the Java language
Java: Programming for the Internet - A complete resource for learning to program animations using the Java language
RealAudio - Information about real-time audio on the Internet, plus playing and encoding software
Shockwave Developer's Guide - Complete information for creating movies, animations, and interactive multimedia displays

WebMastry

International Webmasters Association - a professional trade association, providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals
Spinning the Web - A simple guide for setting up an Internet server
Web Developer's Virtual Library - A massive collection of references for Web development
Webmasters Reference Library - Over 700 annotated links and additional articles for building, operating, and maintaining a Web site
The World Wide Web Consortium - Offers "the universe of network-accessible information," which includes about everything you need to know for everything you want to do

Downloading Software

TUCOWS - An interesting site with interesting download
Windows Update - Keeping your Windows OS up-to-date
Desktoppublishing.com - Tools you can use for desk top publishing
Microsoft Free Downloads - An industry leader
ZD Net Software Library - A compilation of software

After You're Published

Once you've created your website you need to let the world know where you are. You can submit your website to over 300 search engines, including all the big ones, by using Promote Site one of the available applications in our user interface.

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